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		<title><![CDATA[Orange and T-Mobile reject need for Ofcom concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have signalled they are unwilling to make concessions to competition regulators who will decide whether to allow the merger of their UK mobile phone businesses. Hamid Akhavan, Deutsche Telekom's chief operating officer, and Olaf Swantee, head of France Telecom's mobile operations worldwide, said they saw...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:04:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile and Orange merger could face concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange may be asked to make concessions to competition regulators in order to get approval for their UK merger. Ed Richards, CEO of UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom, says regulators are likely to ask the mobile operators to relinquish radio spectrum. Regulators may also scrutinise how...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Orange and T-Mobile reject need for Ofcom concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have signalled they are unwilling to make concessions to competition regulators who will decide whether to allow the merger of their UK mobile phone businesses.Hamid Akhavan, Deutsche Telekom's chief operating officer, and Olaf Swantee, head of France Telecom's mobile operations worldwide, said they saw...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vodafone Doubles Cost Cut Target]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kate HoltonLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Vodafone VOD, the world's largest mobile phone operator by revenue, has doubled its cost cutting target to 2 billion pounds by 2012, after a successful start to the programme boosted cashflow.Vodafone's decision to raise its target by 1 billion pounds surprised analysts and came...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:15:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile, Orange Seal UK JV Plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Deutsche Telekom AG's DTEGn T-Mobile UK and France Telecom SA's FTE Orange signed an agreement to combine their British units in a joint venture on Thursday, two months after both companies announced the plan."Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have committed themselves to a long-term partnership with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Orange deal could start 20 MVNOs a year]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Orange is partnering with Transtel in a deal that promises to make it easier for companies to launch mobile virtual operator networks MVNOs using Orange's network capacity. Using Transtel's mobile service platform, Orange says it "could theoretically introduce up to 20 MVNOs each year", with clients able to launch...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:42:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[F Telecom replaces French unit chief]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[France Telecom yesterday replaced its senior manager in charge of French operations as it sought to contain a crisis of confidence triggered by a spate of suicides among its employees. Louis-Pierre Wenes, a former management consultant who as deputy chief executive for France Telecom led the company's drive to cut...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:10:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Political fury over F Telecom suicides]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Didier Lombard, chief executive of France Telecom, faced calls for his resignation yesterday as he found himself at a centre of a political storm in France following the 24th suicide by a company employee in 18 months.France's opposition socialists and far-left parties demanded that Mr Lombard quit the company...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile to merge with Orange]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ T-Mobile and Orange seem set to merge their UK operations after the companies confirmed they were in "exclusive talks" about partnering on a 50-50 venture. The deal will establish the merged firm as the biggest single mobile operator in the UK, with some 37% of the market. The new...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Orange Buying Unanimis, Forms Multimedia Ad Network]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A month after saying it will form a joint mobile ads sales team with Blyk, Orange is buying itself a place at the web ads top table, acquiring Unanimis, the largest UK digital ad agency, for an undisclosed sum.The announcement doesn&#8217;t say exactly how Orange will use Unanimis, whose...]]></description>
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